"HOGNASTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 5 miles
N.E. of Ashbourne, its railway station and post town, and 5 S.W. of
Wirksworth. The village, which is small, is situated on a branch of the
river Dove. The inhabitants are wholly agricultural. The living is a
perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £55.